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How to Create Custom Templates For Posts – Part 2 – Remove Sidebars from Posts

This is the second in a short series on creating custom template styles for posts. We will be using Thesis hooks and filters to create these “post templates”. In this second part we write the function that removes the sidebars from the appropriate posts using the thesis_show_sidebars filter. Video Transcript Step 2 is now to [...]

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How to Create Custom Templates For Posts – Part 3 – Add Custom Body Class

This is the third in a short series on creating custom template styles for posts. We will be using Thesis hooks and filters to create these “post templates”. In this part we write the function that adds a custom body class to each custom template using the thesis_body_classes filter. Video Transcript So that takes us [...]

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How to Create Custom Templates For Posts – Part 4 – Add Custom Sidebars

This is the fourth in a short series on creating custom template styles for posts. We will be using Thesis hooks and filters to create these “post templates”. In this part we write the functions that creates the custom sidebars and then adds them to the appropriate post template. Video Transcript So then the next [...]

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Multilingual Website Case Study Part 5 – Add the Language Switching Function

This is the fifth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Multilingual Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we create the function that allows us to switch between different languages. We get the new post meta, we use the new WordPress 3.1 function called “meta_query” and we create [...]

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How to Create Custom Templates For Posts – Part 5 – Create Minimalist Template

This is the fifth in a short series on creating custom template styles for posts. We will be using Thesis hooks and filters to create these “post templates”. In this part we write the function that removes the header, navigation menu and the footer from the template. We use the thesis_show_footer filter to remove the [...]

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How to Create Custom Templates For Posts – Part 6 – Write the CSS

This is the sixth and final lesson in a short series on creating custom template styles for posts. We will be using Thesis hooks and filters to create these “post templates”. In this part we create the CSS rules to make our templates layout the way we expect them to. Video Transcript Okay so that [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 19 – Add Post Meta and Taxonomy Information to the Post Display

This is the nineteenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this session we look at the display of the catalog item post. We want to add the subtitle and author name (post meta and taxonomy term) to the display of the post. Video [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 24, Add Taxonomy and Post Meta Data to the Teaser

This is the twenty fourth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we add the custom post meta of subtitle and author’s name to the teaser. We previously added this information to the post. We accomplish this with Thesis hooks in custom_functions.php. [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 60 Link Reviews Back to Catalog Items

This is the 60th in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS) for a Community Library Website. In this lesson we create the link on the Review that takes us to the original Catalog Item.  We use get_post_meta to get the catalog item post id and [...]

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Community Library Case Study Case Study – Part 61 Get the Catalog Item Post Image

This is the 61st in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS) for a Community Library Website. In this lesson we get the post image of the Catalog Item and display it on the Review. This way we don’t need to duplicate data by having 2 [...]

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